The International and Global Studies Program in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas invites applications for a non-tenure track instructor in International Studies to start in August 2025. This is a standard nine-month faculty appointment with a teaching load of 4-4. The closing date for the position is 24 […]
The Collaborative Conservation & Adaptation Planning Lab at Auburn University is seeking a motivated master’s student to contribute to a research project examining the challenges related to localization efforts within the international conservation and development context. Localization refers to the process of shifting decision-making power, resources, and implementation responsibilities from international donors and large organizations to […]
Scholarship to start masters at INRS, Montréal Urbanization Culture Society Centre This is a call for application for a master’s scholarship within the project titled “Analysing food districts to understand urban imaginaries and knowledge production: A Montréal-Delhi comparison”. Cities are complex entities and we, as users of these entities, have developed various ways to understand […]
The Department of Environmental Studies at Davidson College invites applications for a one-year position at the Visiting Assistant Professor level, with a start date of July 1, 2025. The primary teaching responsibility will be our introductory Environmental Social Science course, plus other courses in the professor’s area of expertise. The ideal candidate will demonstrate potential […]
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boston University Initiative on Cities The Boston University Initiative on Cities (IOC) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position starting September 1, 2025. This is a two-year appointment. The IOC PDRA will have expertise in urban studies and undertake a research project designed by themselves in relation to an urban […]
The Department of Geography at Dartmouth College invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow in Human Geography. This two-year position will augment and complement existing departmental strengths, which include critical urban and health studies, Black geographies, feminist geographies, and nature-society relations. This position is full-time, non-remote, in-residence at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH, with a start date as early as July 1, […]
Assistant Professor, Urban Sustainability The Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the field of Urban Sustainability to begin August 1, 2025. We seek a dynamic scholar-teacher to help us build on existing departmental strengths, especially in sustainability, urban planning, and GIScience. […]
The Environment & Sustainability Program at William and Mary is currently searching for two year Postdoctoral Research Associate with expertise in Multispecies Politics or Animate Ecologies. In this appointment, the postdoc will have substantial amounts of time to focus on their own research agenda. In addition, the postdoc will work with faculty mentors on a […]
The Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER<https://sustainability.asu.edu/caplter/>) has been funded by the National Science Foundation’s Long-term Ecological Research Program (LTER)<https://lternet.edu/> for more than 25 years to study the urban ecology of metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral scholar<https://apply.interfolio.com/163268> to conduct interdisciplinary environmental research with CAP scholars using the core social […]
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boston University Initiative on Cities The Boston University Initiative on Cities (IOC) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position starting September 1, 2025. This is a two-year appointment. The IOC PDRA will have expertise in urban studies and undertake a research project designed by themselves in relation to an urban […]
Fully Funded PhD Opportunity in Human Dimensions of Nature at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, USA Application Deadline – 15 March 2025 and Internal Deadline – 10 February 2025 For details contact Dr. Helina Jolly (helina.jolly@uvm.edu) The Jolly Lab at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources is seeking a dedicated student […]
Geoeconomics and Geopolitics of Energy Transition CFP for Global Conference on Economic Geography, Worcester, USA, June 4-8, 2025 Session Organizers: Jessie P.H. Poon, (SUNY-Buffalo), Julie Silva (SUNY-Buffalo), Dariusz Jacek Wojcik (National University of Singapore) The global energy transition has gained saliency as concerns about climate risks grow. A low carbon economy based on renewable and […]
The agricultural sector is entering an “age of disruption” (Deloitte, 2015). Advances in technology, like robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), are reshaping farm work and rural development (RBC, 2019; The Economist, 2016). Agricultural technology (AgTech) adoption is viewed as critical in solving global challenges such as feeding a growing world population, responding to the impacts […]
Zack Tayor is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Specializing in comparative urban political economy, the multi-level governance of cities, and political geography, his work lies at the intersection of political science, urban geography, planning studies, and urban sociology. He is a fellow at the Institute on Municipal and […]
Zack Tayor is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Specializing in comparative urban political economy, the multi-level governance of cities, and political geography, his work lies at the intersection of political science, urban geography, planning studies, and urban sociology. He is a fellow at the Institute on Municipal and […]
Geographies of Refugee Resettlement and Post-industrial Urban Renewal in Rust Belt Cities Refugees are active agents of urban change. According to the United Nations, 60 percent of the world’s refugees are in cities and as such, cities of today are uniquely positioned to seek solutions that address refugee concerns alongside interrelated urban social justice and […]
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Newfoundland and Tasmania, Australia, have been described as ‘mirror islands’ with striking linkages. Site of one of the field excursions during the authors’ 12-day exchange to Tasmania, Australia. (Author Provided, Brady Reid) In an era of “global […]
Grete Gansauer is an economic geographer and interdisciplinary public policy researcher focused on regional development, place-based policy, and the local state in peripheral regions and ‘left behind’ places. Focusing on rural contexts and natural resource production, her research examines regional development and sustainability challenges amidst spatial inequality, and how central policies ‘touch down’ at the […]
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]
It was great to see six sessions at RSA 2023 in Ljubljana as part of a theme on Climate Change, Energy & Environmental Sustainability. Several other sessions were focused on sustainability as well. Many of the papers presented technical analyses of supporting blue or green economy initiatives. While these are much needed, we also need […]
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]
Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry: Racial Disparities of the Paycheck Protection Program: Focusing on Structural Differences in Banking Infrastructure This project examines the distributional outcomes of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was implemented by the U.S. federal government to preserve jobs in small businesses in response to the 2020 coronavirus […]
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) provides a range of research funding opportunities to suit different career stages and we are pleased to share with you details on forthcoming application deadlines. We encourage non-members to apply for a grant and join the RSA at the same time. Deadlines for the 2023 RSA Awards and Funding are as […]
This blog was written for the RSA Blog Student Summer Series that will highlight graduate student success in regional studies across the globe throughout the summer. During the COVID-19 pandemic, select regions around the globe formed ‘travel/quarantine bubbles’ with imposed hard borders such as the ‘Trans-Tasman Bubble’ involving New Zealand and Australia and the […]